Title:The Dialect of South Lancashire,or Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary: with his Rhymes and an Enlarged Glossary of Words and Phrases [...]

Publication:London: John Russell Smith 1854.

Description:12mo., pp. xxii, 266. One leaf (89-90) bound out of order (after 91-92). Edges untrimmed, a touch of spotting in one or two places, faint waterstain to gutter of front endpapers. Red textured cloth, blind-stamped border to boards, gilt to spine, spine sun-faded (and boards a little bit as well), boards very slightly scuffed and showing one or two tiny marks, spine bumped head and tail. Bookseller's ticket to upper pastedown and embossed stamp to f.f.e.p.

Contains works in prose and verse by Tim Bobbin, a pseudonym of the caricaturist and satirist John Collier (1708-1796), illustrating the South Lancashire dialect, with a glossary of words and an introduction by Samuel Bamford.